Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

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Half toybox, half science project, Kerbal Space Program is the most fun you can have while learning about space. On the ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

NASA has confirmed that a mysterious object hurtling towards us is an "interstellar object" that has entered the Solar System ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make this challenging ...